Francophone North African Literatureстатья из журнала
Аннотация: The study of francophone North African literature has witnessed something of a surge in popularity over the last twenty years.Although many of the richest and best-known literary works in French by North African writers were published in the lead-up to and aftermath of decolonization, criticism in this area has exploded in recent decades, in particular with the rise of postcolonial studies in the US and the UK.If, moreover, the end of the French presence in the North African colonies of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, and in particular the Algerian War of Independence, were subjects that received little critical attention in France in the years after decolonizationas if testifying to a difficulty in coming to terms with the trauma of colonial lossthese have now become a more prominent focus of intellectual enquiry.Despite this resurgence of interest in the colonial past in North Africa and its legacies in the present, however, much work remains to be done and this remains a troubled field, at least in France.Critics cite, for example, article 4 of law 2005-158, proposed on 23 February 2005 though later retracted, according to which university research must accord recognition to the positive contribution of the French who served overseas. 1Even if the wording was subsequently modified, the subjection of university research on colonialism and postcolonialism to a legal discourse in this instance indicates an ongoing and disturbing political anxiety about the ways in which colonial history might be investigated and interrogated.Literary critics, for their part, have recently paid renewed attention to the memory and representation of colonialism and its demise in North Africa, perceiving in the literary form an alternative critical perspective to that of 'official' political discourse.At the same time, given the persistence of widespread anxiety about the colonial past in France alongside the emergence of new tensions in North Africa, the very meaning of 'postcolonialism' in North Africa, fifty years or more after independence, is again under scrutiny.
Год издания: 2015
Авторы: Jane Hiddleston
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Источник: French Studies
Ключевые слова: African history and culture studies, Caribbean and African Literature and Culture, North African History and Literature
Открытый доступ: bronze
Том: 70
Выпуск: 1
Страницы: 82–92